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Resources and Fact Sheets

Below you'll find some handy factsheets and resources on a range of topics relevant to high performance athletes. Some are targeted at athletes; some will be of interest to practitioners working with athletes. Feel free to use these with your athletes, but please do acknowledge where they came from. We don't mind sharing our resources, but we don't like when others take credit for our hard work.

Time management, goal setting and personal development

Time management tips for student athletes
Time Management Tips for Student-Athletes
Elizabeth Egan's Big Deluxe Weekly Planner
The Big Deluxe Weekly Planner (A3)
Weekly planner for busy student athletes
Weekly Planner/ Schedule
Planners for busy dual career athletes
Monthly Day Planners 2019
4 Month Planners
4 Month/Termly Planners 2017-2018
Travel Preparation Worksheet for athletes
Travel Preparation Worksheet
Tips to managing your emails
Email Management Tips for Student-Athletes
TASS Lifestyle Workbook
Useful websites and links to other external resources
​IOC Olympic Athletes' Hub Balancing Sport and Education Handbook
​IOC Olympic Athletes' Hub Employment Handbook
IOC Olympic Athletes' Hub Lifeskills Handbook

Life after Sport

Gardening tool video
Useful Websites
Top pick: IOC Olympic Athletes' Hub, Career Transitions section (Olympic sports)
XPRO - Life after football (football)
​Life After Porfessional Sport (professional sports)
The Final Whistle (all sports; Australian based; online support)
Crossing the Line (all sports)

Mental health and welfare

Why is Depression so Common in Sport
Why is Depression so Common in Sport?
Useful websites and links to other external resources
IOC Harassment and Abuse in Sport
ACSM Postition Stand on Female Athlete Triad
NCAA Coaches Manual on Managing the Female Athlete Triad


Anti-doping

Useful websites
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD)
GlobalDro (medicine check Australia, Canada, Japan, UK, and USA)
​Sport Ireland
Eirpharm (medicine check Ireland)

Funding and scholarships

Tips for applying for Sports Scholarships
Scholarship application advice
Sources of funding (external links)

General
TASS (UK)
SportsAid (UK)
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Sky Academy (UK & Irl)

Athletics
Bob Ashwood Memorial Fund (West Midlands mid/long distance runners age 18-23)
Athletics for All (England Athletics)
Ron Pickering Memorial Fund

Crowdfunding (Sport Specific)
Pledge Sports (has specific British, European and US sites)
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Nutrition and recovery

Recovery food
Food for Recovery Factsheet
Iron and anaemia
Iron and Anaemia Factsheet
Travel nutrition
Travel Nutrition Factsheet
Useful websites

Travel, jet lag and altitude training

Travel Advice for athletes
General Travel Advice Factsheet
How to overcome jet lag
Jet Lag and Travel Fatigue Factsheet
Travel worksheet for athletes
Travel Preparation Worksheet
Travel Nutrition
Travel Nutrition Factsheet
Altitude Training
Altitude Training Factsheet
Useful websites
AltitudeTrainingCamps.com

Some recommended books and resources (various topics)

For Athletes
For Practitioners

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